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Adam Scheffer is president of the Art Dealers Association of America, and partner and sales director at Cheim & Read.
It’s a fascinating time to run a gallery. More than ever it’s a time for us to innovate, to be extremely forward thinking and open-minded. Those...

The climate science maverick believes catastrophe is inevitable, carbon offsetting is a joke and ethical living a scam. So what would he do?
In 1965 executives at Shell wanted to know what the world would look like in the year 2000. They consulted a range of...

Doug Tompkins, founder of The North Face, on battles with Steve Jobs and why we need to dismantle our techno-industrial society
It has become something of a mantra within the sustainability movement that innovations in technology can save the world. But rather than liberating us, Doug...

I’m happy to have success in painting, but it’s never been a goal. It happened by itself over a very long period of time and with some certain luck, and you can’t tell how much is fashion and how much is sustainable. People might say,...

Without us noticing, we are entering the postcapitalist era. At the heart of further change to come is information technology, new ways of working and the sharing economy. The old ways will take a long while to disappear, but it’s time to be utopian
The red...

Coming from the financial sector, where for years he has worked as an investment banker, the Brussels-based collector Alain Servais prides himself on taking a holistic view of the systems powering the global art industry, applying market models to predict future trends—and swoop in on...

Situating Post Internet by Domenico Quaranta
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Writing about post internet art from an art history perspective looks pretty much like an impossible task at present. Either we are still trapped in the storm of comments, opinions and debates that blew up when this proposed art label...

From The Book of Life from Alain de Botton's School of Life
At a recent Sotheby’s auction in London, Wall by the German painter Gerhard Richter eclipsed the already vast estimate given by the auction house, finally selling for a shade under 17.5 million GBP. It...

New Business Models for the Art Market with Jonathan T.D. Neil and Stefan Simchowitz
An informational and comprehensive conversation focusing on the proliferation of the international art market and the role of new models in this expanded field. Art sales have traditionally passed through auction houses,...

A Collector Debunks Art as an Investment By Adam Lindemann
The last several years have brought nosebleed prices for works of art, auction records that seem to be broken almost as soon as they are made. With endless media coverage of $100 million Picassos and $50 million Jeff...

With images circulating more freely than ever, is it time for copyright legislation to be relaxed – or tightened? Apollo Magazine asked a range of senior figuresfor their perspectives on copyright now
WIM PIJBES - GENERAL DIRECTOR, THE RIJKSMUSEUM
The Rijksmuseum was the first cultural institution to radically...

Art reflects society. It is a witness of a certain era. Artists are responsible to capture this period of time and represent it through their art.
The invention of perspective for instance, became the framework in which to visually represent nature and history in paintings as...

Why releasing copyright will be the smartest thing you do. - Leo Babauta
Recently I stirred up a roar of controversy with a post at Zen Habits: Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway (or, The Privatization of the English Language). I had no idea the...

THE SYMPTOMS OF CONNECTEDNESS
A Conversation With Marisa Olson by Nick Warner
NW: This term – Postinternet – can be useful in talking broadly about the new significance that the internet has come to have in our lives as ʻcultural practitionersʼ over the last, I donʼt know,...

LEROY BROTHERS, the creative brain behind the innovative concept ’Witness Your World’. Three brothers, in their thirties, with a vision. In 1997 they officially sign their first painting, from which a first series is created. These works have little to do with what they produce...

Leroy Brothers in The Calvert Journal
Crowd-sourced submissions for the new Mumiy Troll album cover will go on display at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art later this month alongside photography, video and audio from the Russian rock band. The competition was launched earlier this year...

Original Article - The art collective launched by Nicolas, Gregory and Gilles Leroy – who came to be known as the Leroy Brothers – has been in operation since 1997 and is more similar to a 21st century family business than a visual art group....

As the highlight of Hainan Rendez-vous, “Art in Hainan” will come back with exclusive selection of great contemporary artists.
Art in Hainan curated by Magda Danysz, director of the Galerie Magda Danysz in Paris and 18 Gallery in Shanghai. She’s decorated by the French ministry of...

Collective intelligence is a shared or group intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals. Collective intelligence appears in a wide variety of forms of consensus decision making in bacteria, animals, humans, and computer networks.
Collective intelligence can be encouraged to overcome ‘groupthink’ and individual...

One of our first FaceBook profile pix was a black box with white Impact font. It read: “We are all beautiful on FaceBook!” Back in 2007, the average Internet user had never heard of Web 2.0. Lots of people still don’t. Simply put, Web 1.0...

This book is the Leroy Brothers philosophy and will help demystify aspects of the art world, hopefully encouraging you to ascend to that privileged fraction of society who live well from passionate work and are well respected by accomplished artists, critics, collectors, and an adoring...

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Asia Pacific Contemporary
Until July 7 Art Labor in Shanghai is presenting the work of the Belgian Leroy Brothers.
While the contemporary Asian art auction circuit has seen artists become instant art superstars in little more than a year this exhibition entitled ‘How to Be A...

How To Become a Successful Contemporary Artist From A to Z
So your art is great. You just finished a series of paintings or photographs. Next step, place it in the art world. People need to see it, but they won’t just be looking at your...

How To Become a Successful Contemporary Artist From A to Z
“Lack of charisma can be fatal!” - Jenny Holzer
Be authentic. Do what you do. No one likes wannabes. Nerds managed to be cool! Capice? You don’t want a girl who’s faking it! Do you? Be...

How To Become a Successful Contemporary Artist From A to Z
To be an artist, you must become art. At breakfast, you smear not butter, but art on your toast. You breathe fresh art, not air. You think of art every minute of every day. You...

So you’re an artist wishing to make a living from your passion, believing you and your amazing creations are ready for the art world. Where do you start? So you’re passionate and talented. The question remains, do you really have the goods to be a...

Some drafts on Witness Your World
When exactly Witness Your World was born, no one knows. It took some time conceiving the platform, as for all offsprings of this age… that’s the digital age. In a way its evolution will probably never stop. As long as...

"You want to be an artist? Don’t be ridiculous! Everyone is an artist these days! That’s because everyone listened to Joseph Beuys, who said that everyone was an artist. So you’re probably just an artist who hasn’t realised it yet. For sure, you’re probably going...

Can crowdsourced art actually produce high art? Of course, take a look at Leroy Brothers’ BDRtist. But how about other net projects.
The Johnny Cash Project (2010) Aaron Koblin, Chris Milk and Radical Media
A unique crowd-sourced music video project honoring the legacy of Johnny Cash. The Johnny Cash...

What’s the Best Way to Support Startups, Services or Cash? on ReadWriteWeb
“Most of the time, when a startup goes after venture capital, they’re still in the process of building a product and bringing it to market. They need things like servers, developers, marketing tools...

Leroy Brothers 2008 vs. Diesel 2010
On our last trip to Shanghai we were surprised to see the ‘new’ Diesel campaign ‘BE STUPID’ on a taxi screen. The Leroy Brothers created similar movie clips 2 to 3 years ago. (btw we contacted Diesel in September 2009, but had...

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Looking for painter workshops in China for Leroy Brothers production
Oil painting workshops in Dafen, Xiamen and Putian.
Dafen suburb of Buji, Longgang, Shenzhen in Guangdong province, China. In the early 1990s a group of about twenty artists under the leadership of the painter and businessman Huang...

Belgian brothers Leroy are the innovative duo behind the online artistic enterprise the Leroy Brothers. We hear more about their hometown and the unique concept behind their art.
01 Where do you live?
Ghent. We were born here, we strayed for a while but we came back....

When I first heard of Axel King as referring to a new Project by the Leroy brothers, I was shocked. What the heck was this kind of name? An attack on Monarchy? A juvenile expression of narcissism? Or just a result of an instant insight...

With the presentation of the works and the world around artist Axel King, a production of Leroy Brothers, one of the most interesting shows of 2008 will open at the Art Center DeWillem3 Vlissingen. The questioning is based on the work of virtual artist Axel...

"Social life moves further, leaving a state of ‘having’ and proceeding into a state of ‘appearing;’ namely the appearance of the image." Guy Debord
The Society of the Spectacle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia...

Spectacle operates in two contexts simultaneously. On the one hand, it refers to high culture (drama, movies) performances where the draw for an audience is the impressive visual accomplishment. On the other hand, it refers to low cultural shows operating in a folk environment. These can range from the freak show to...

Afflatus is a Latin term derived from Cicero (in De Natura Deorum (The Nature of the Gods)) that has been translated as “inspiration.” Cicero’s usage was a literalizing of “inspiration,” which had already become figurative. Literally, “inspiration,” like “afflatus,” means “to be blown into” by a divine wind. As “inspiration” came to...

"People want to be told what is good and valuable
People collect art just like star wars toys
People like the feeling being turned on by something not everyone can appreciate
Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business
Don’t try to sell early, build brand equity
Your...

What is an artist? Simply said: someone who makes art. But even this simple definition is undermined by the project Axel King by Belgian Leroy Brothers.
Axel King is some kind of evolutionary algorithm that produces art. On a web platform users can upload pictures...

Wagner Carelli: How did you arrive at the idea of Axel King? What kind of experience and background preceded it?
Leroy Brothers: The Axel King project has been a long process, but here it is in short. With a previous project, we invited non-visual artists, like...